Towards a framework for evaluating and grading evidence in public health (Publications)
The Project on a Framework for Rating Evidence in Public Health (PRECEPT) is an international collaboration of public health institutes and universities which has been funded by the European Centre fo
Genomic epidemiology of multidrug-resistant <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> during transcontinental spread (Publications)
The transcontinental spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis is poorly characterized in molecular epidemiologic studies. We used genomic sequencing to understand the establishment and dispers
Associations between particulate matter composition and childhood blood pressure - the PIAMA study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Childhood blood pressure is an important predictor of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in adulthood. Evidence for an association between ambient particulate matter (PM) exposure and
Investigating the potential of reported cattle mortality data in Switzerland for syndromic surveillance (Publications)
Systems for the identification and registration of cattle have gradually been receiving attention for use in syndromic surveillance, a relatively recent approach for the early detection of infectious
Determinants of virological failure and antiretroviral drug resistance in Mozambique (Publications)
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to inform public health actions to limit first-line ART failure and HIV drug resistance in Mozambique. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study. HIV-1-infe
Molecular epidemiology of pneumococci obtained from Gambian children aged 2-29 months with invasive pneumococcal disease during a trial of a 9-valent... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: The study describes the molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae causing invasive disease in Gambian children METHODS: One hundred and thirty-two S. pneumoniae isolates were reco
Comparative genomics of the anopheline glutathione s-transferase epsilon cluster (Publications)
Enzymes of the glutathione S-transferase (GST) family play critical roles in detoxification of xenobiotics across many taxa. While GSTs are ubiquitous both in animals and plants, the GST epsilon class
Cardiac alterations in human African trypanosomiasis (<em>T.b. gambiense</em>) with respect to the disease stage and antiparasitic treatment (Publications)
BACKGROUND: In Human African Trypanosomiasis, neurological symptoms dominate and cardiac involvement has been suggested. Because of increasing resistance to the available drugs for HAT, new compounds